Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 10:08:05 +0200 (CEST) From: Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de> To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Cc: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/fxp if_fxp.c if_fxpvar.h Message-ID: <20030506100558.Y838@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0305051014590.5135-100000@root.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0305051014590.5135-100000@root.org>
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On Mon, 5 May 2003, Nate Lawson wrote: NL>On Mon, 5 May 2003, Harti Brandt wrote: NL>> M. Warner Losh wrote: NL>> MWL>Right now there's no safe way to use driver locks. Sometimes, we have NL>> MWL>to acquire the locks NET, DRIVER. Other times you do the reverse. NL>> MWL>There are other times you do need to call ether_ifdetach with the lock NL>> MWL>held. This is a real mess. I'm contemplating a strawman proposal to NL>> MWL>help address these issues. NL>> NL>> I'd love to see it. NL> NL>Your comments are coming in a bit late. I believe the next step is for NL>Warner to send out his proposal once he's ready. Well, I tried to bring up this topic at least twice during the last months... harti -- harti brandt, http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de, harti@freebsd.org
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